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What’s Your Funny Bone?
Sometimes, when you bump your elbow really hard, your arm can get all weird and tingly, all the way down to your fingers! Some people call that "hitting your funny bone," but what you're hitting isn't a bone at all!
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Is Your Dog As Smart As A Two Year Old?
You’ve heard that dogs are basically furry toddlers, with cognitive abilities on par with a 2 year old human. But while that might make sense on some levels, the minds of distinct species can work very differently.
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Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy
Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal...
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Roar! Meet the Big Cats! Animal Science for Kids
Can you tell a leopard from a jaguar? How are lions different from tigers -- other than those stripes? Jessi introduces you to the four big cats!
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Brr! 5 Videos about Winter!
The snow is really coming down where Jessi lives, so she and Squeaks decided to stay indoors where it's nice and warm and look back on some of the amazing things they've learned about winter! Grab a fuzzy sweater and a mug of cocoa and...
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Why Can’t I Eat Peanut Butter?
Some people (maybe you!) can't eat certain foods because they're allergic to them. People can have an allergic reaction to almost any kind of food, or even other things, like bee stings! But all allergies have something in common: our...
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Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it...
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The Evolution of Male Homosexuality
Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, the fossil evidence of squishy baby skulls, toddler...
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Blobfish: The World's Ugliest Animal | Biology for Kids | SciShow Kids
The blobfish has been called "The World's Ugliest Animal", but it's actually really cool. Find out why it's shaped the way it is with Jessi and Squeaks.
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TED: What we don't know about mother's milk | Katie Hinde
Breast milk grows babies' bodies, fuels neurodevelopment, provides essential immunofactors and safeguards against famine and disease -- why, then, does science know more about tomatoes than mother's milk? Katie Hinde shares insights into...
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TED: Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit | Lindsay Malloy
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Why do juveniles falsely confess to crimes? What makes them more vulnerable than adults to this shocking,...
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Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
In her talk, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video...
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Kids and Sugar: The Sweet-and-Lowdown
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Parents blaming their kids' active behavior on sugar. But is it true? Hank gives you sweet-and-lowdown on the extent to which sugar can and can't affect behavior, in kids and...
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TED: The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang
Rebeca Hwang has spent a lifetime juggling identities -- Korean heritage, Argentinian upbringing, education in the United States -- and for a long time she had difficulty finding a place in the world to call home. Yet along with these...
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Why Are Wet Dogs Smelly?
Squeaks and Jessi made a new friend, Cassie the puppy! They gave her a bath after playing in the mud, but now she smells even worse than before! Why do wet dogs smell so bad?!
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Life in the Redwoods | Surprising Animals of the Redwood Forest
Jessi and Squeaks are learning more about the redwoods, and all the different animals that live in the different layers! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans - There are...
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TED: How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help | Miriam Zoila Perez
Racism is making people sick -- especially black women and babies, says Miriam Zoila Perez. The doula turned journalist explores the relationship between race, class and illness and tells us about a radically compassionate prenatal care...
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What Is Squid Ink?
Our friend the Giant Squid inspired a SciShow Kids viewer to write us and ask, 'What is squid ink, and can you write with it?' Jessi has the answers!
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Solar-Powered Slugs
We need to eat food to fuel our bodies, but this special slug, called emerald elysia, can make food using sunlight - just like plants do! All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see,...
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The Very Long Time of the Dinosaurs! | History of Life! | SciShow Kids
Dino stops by the Fort to learn all about dinosaurs with Jessi and Squeaks! Did you know that dinosaurs were on Earth for so long that not all dinosaurs lived at the same time?! 2nd Grade Next Generation Science Standards Science and...
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TED: How to be a good ancestor | Roman Krznaric
Our descendants own the future, but the decisions and actions we make now will tremendously impact generations to come, says philosopher Roman Krznaric. From a global campaign to grant legal personhood to nature to a groundbreaking...
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The World Under a Rock!
Check out life under a rock to see what you can learn about insects, spiders, and other animals!
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Why Do We Blink?
Ever have a staring contest? Why is it so hard?! Jessi answers a question from a curious SciShow Kids viewer: Why do we blink?
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Stephen Friend: The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"
What can we learn from people with the genetics to get sick — who don't? With most inherited diseases, only some family members will develop the disease, while others who carry the same genetic risks dodge it. Stephen Friend suggests we...